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2024-11-05
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GOING UPSTAIRS - Official Selection in the IndieBoom Comedy Short Contest.
(2025) -
BEFORE THE FOG Award Winner Hollywood Just4Shorts Film and Screenplay Competition Award Winner
(2024) -
A NEW KIND OF CHRISTMAS - Semifinalist in the InkTip Pro Screenwriting Contest - Holiday Script
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LOVE FROM FRIENDS - Award Winner CinemaStreet Women's Short Screenplay Competition
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LEARN TO DRIVE voted Best Drama at First Stage LA.
(2014)
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Wide Blossoms (
2016 )
Theater by The Eagle Project/Jessi D. Hill (Drama) Playwright Wide Blossoms takes place one evening at a Baton Rouge bar, shortly after Hurricane Katrina. James, a young lawyer drinking perhaps to numb a guilty conscience, is from a biracial family but passes for white. He is about to leave when a mysterious young African American woman appears, disheveled and disoriented. She drops phrases and poems that haunt him. James, why didn’t you bring the boat? Mari asks. He insists that he doesn’t know her. But Mari persists. The storm left her with nothing but the poems of her grandpa who drowned in the flooding waters. As the bar nears closing time, James learns that the grandfather he never knew perished in the storm, because he did nothing to rescue him. Mari forces him to come out of denial, face the past, and take a first step at looking after someone other than himself. This night, James gets a second chance at redemption.
Loglines
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Two Sides of My Heart Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Romance An idealistic NY lawyer falls in love with her legal opponent, the developer whose plan for a hotel marina in her Maine hometown will destroy her family's fishing livelihood.
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The Ride of My Life Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance A professional chef who hasn’t attended church in years discovers her faith when an unlikely romance blossoms between her and her hometown’s new pastor.
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Boys Love This Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy ⋄ Romance A late bloomer in working class Brooklyn kidnaps a hot personal trainer to be her boyfriend.
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A New Kind of Christmas Budget: $100K - $1M | Family ⋄ Romance A young mom with two kids reluctantly moves to a crumbling old inn up north with no internet, a grouchy old caretaker and eccentric old staff, when her boss tasks her with its renovation. But they find mystery, new friends, and a romance for mom.
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Dazzled Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy ⋄ Romance A young music publicist falls hard for a bad boy rock singer while a sweet, corny (rich) guy she mistakes for a beach bum tries to win her heart.
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No Way But Up Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy ⋄ Romance A struggling chorus dancer has a hard time accepting the unfamiliar newness of good luck when a lovely rich man out of her league falls in love with her.
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Hot Deals Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy Five swindlers, posing as self-help healers, make piles of money conning neurotic suckers into buying their formula for how to get rich.
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Budding in Winter Budget: $1M - $5M | Art House ⋄ Drama A sheltered young woman makes a new life taking care of two eccentric, reclusive brothers with secret pasts while she discovers her passionate true self with their hot nephew.
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Falling in Love in Paradise Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance When a San Diego zookeeper brings her precious giant tortoise to a South Pacific island where tortoises face extinction, she falls in love with the island’s passionate marine biologist who disapproves of zoos.
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Elena Montoya Budget: $5M - $10M | Crime ⋄ Drama Elena Montoya, a sexy, fearless Texas born Mexican-American, investigates social justice cases for a liberal lawyer in her conservative Texas town, despite the prejudice she faces.
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A Fool's Game Budget: $100K - $1M | Crime ⋄ Mystery After a string of female deaths that were ruled accidents, a sheriff and his teen daughter hunt a serial killer in their sleepy forest village. Set in present day.
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Perfect Deception Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller / Suspense A woman madly in love with her husband is trying to adopt a child with him, when her husband suddenly disappears, leaves her broke with their house foreclosed, and hires an assassin to kill her.
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Blessingway Budget: $100K - $1M | Crime ⋄ Thriller / Suspense A New York pulp fiction writer discovers his mother's Navajo heritage when he and a young, paraplegic Navajo man bust human traffickers illegally settled on the Navajo reservation.
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